Heya, thanks for checking out my largely-neglected personal website. There is some film and photography stuff here. Also, a very sporadically updated blog. Most importantly, a photo of Tess: A short bio, too: I was born in Warsaw, Poland, which is why I have an unreasonably hard-to-decipher last name (/'SHinôl/). I moved to the US when I was a kid. My childhood was weird for countless reasons, and then I played in bands and worked at record stores and coded software, and then I went to law school. After graduation, I worked at some predictable places (law firms, in house), and then spent about a decade traveling, since, in contrast to communist Poland, I could finally cross international borders at will. I visited (and sometimes lived in) some 60 countries (I've included some photos below). I moved around so much that more than once I had the odd experience of briefly not knowing what country I was in, and it all felt disorienting and enriching in critically liberating and edifying ways, and in retrospect I think it was a form of self-medication through aimless travel, but more about that elsewhere. I practiced law from wherever I happened to be for whatever short or longer period of time, and I made a handful of short documentaries during this period, too. Some of them have been featured on the New York Times (Op-Docs), the Atlantic, The New Yorker, and Aeon, and have been shown at festivals on several continents. I've also participated in some photo exhibitions, including the Leica Gallery in Warsaw, which was particularly important to me, since I still vaguely think of Warsaw as my hometown, possibly because I rode my bike all over the city when I was a kid, and got to know it so well. I now have my own law practice, where I focus primarily on entertainment and technology, and I also teach law part time, which I really love doing. My academic focus is the intersection of law, film, and art.